Israeli forces have displaced thousands of Palestinians in Hebron since an attack killed two soldiers on Friday. A UN commission of inquiry accused Israel on Monday of crimes against humanity in the West Bank.
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Israeli forces killed at least five people in Gaza, including a 7-year-old girl, according to Gaza's Civil Defence as cited by The Hindu and Al Jazeera, which counts 1,559 deaths since the ceasefire. Independent UN-commissioned experts said in a report on Monday that Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza despite the ceasefire.
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Israel's army says all West Bank land crossings will close on Tuesday, election day. In Hebron, thousands have been forced from their homes since an attack on Friday killed two soldiers.
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Israeli air strikes hit the Islamic University in Gaza City in two attacks on Sunday, killing three security guards, according to Al Jazeera. Seven people were killed across Gaza, and Telesur reports that flour shortages leave only seven bakeries operating.
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Israel demolished buildings in Hebron and displaced 1,200 to 2,000 Palestinians after two soldiers were killed nearby on Friday. The army will seal the West Bank on election day.
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Two Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Hebron on Friday before being shot dead. Netanyahu ordered Hebron sealed and a West Bank lockdown.
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This year's olive harvest in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is the most violent in years, with settlers attacking farmers and besieging homes, according to the New York Times. On Friday the UN and an Israeli human rights group warned of escalating violence, sweeping closures and the threat of forced displacement, and Al Jazeera reports that Israel arrested 36 Palestinians.
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Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least four Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, according to Daily Sabah, underscoring the fragility of the US-brokered ceasefire. Separately, The National reports that Dubai is sending winter relief supplies to Gaza through a new air bridge.
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A Jerusalem court released nine of ten suspects in attacks on a US journalist and European diplomats to house arrest. On Thursday UN chief Guterres called the West Bank situation "simply out of control".
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Israeli fire killed four people in Gaza, including a young girl, medics told Reuters. Gaza's Health Ministry warned on Thursday of a complete depletion of oil and lubricants for hospital generators, according to Telesur, while Al Jazeera reports that breast cancer patients face delayed diagnoses and medicine shortages.
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Israeli army chief of staff Eyal Zamir visited the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, and the Jerusalem Post reports that the army is stepping up operations and preparing for Hamas attacks ahead of Israel's election. Al Jazeera reports that families in Gaza struggle to provide nutritious meals for their children as prices rise and aid is cut.
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The Israeli military detained about 80 volunteers on Wednesday near Nahalin in the West Bank, including US congressional nominee Brad Lander, while they helped Palestinian farmers harvest olives, according to the Guardian; the Jerusalem Post puts the number at 90. Al Jazeera reports that Lander was later freed and said dozens remained in custody.
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Israeli attacks across Gaza early on Tuesday killed between four and seven Palestinians, according to Reuters, Daily Sabah and Le Monde, with medical sources and civil defence citing a couple and two children among the dead. Al Jazeera reports that funding shortages threaten food aid for half a million people, while Le Monde says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing an election on 27 October, has vowed to keep attacking Hamas despite the ceasefire.
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The World Food Programme said on Monday it is ending monthly aid for 500,000 people in Gaza, citing lack of funding. Reuters reports Israel will resume commercial shipments.
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Israeli security forces detained between eight and ten suspects, according to differing reports, after settlers attacked a convoy of European diplomats in the West Bank and seriously injured a US photographer over the weekend. Le Monde reports that a French mayor was beaten in the attack on the diplomats.
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Hundreds of Palestinians attended a funeral on Sunday for 75 people whose remains were recovered from the ruins of Gaza City, most of them from the Daraj neighbourhood according to the Health Ministry. Al Jazeera reports that residents face rising prices and fear food shortages after Israel halted commercial shipments.
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Masked settlers attacked European diplomats and a French mayor in the West Bank on Saturday, a day after a Washington Post photographer was beaten. The US and Belgium demanded action.
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Israeli drone attacks killed six Palestinians across Gaza despite the ceasefire, according to Al Jazeera, which also reports that UNICEF says more than 340 children have been killed since the ceasefire began a year ago. Daily Sabah reports that shelters are increasingly damaged after repeated displacement during three years of war, as millions face winter rains and floods.
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Israeli settlers attacked olive pickers in several West Bank villages on Friday and beat photographer Heidi Levine. The Washington Post demanded an investigation.
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Israel has stopped commercial shipments into Gaza for a second day, citing a dispute between merchants and Hamas. UNICEF warned on Friday that progress against malnutrition could unravel.
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Israel's military body COGAT said on Thursday that commercial goods have stopped entering Gaza, blaming a dispute between traders and Hamas. Hamas and Gaza's government media office deny imposing taxes.
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An Israeli air strike killed a woman in Gaza City on Wednesday, and settlers burned a West Bank prayer room. Israel is also blocking a Board of Peace outpost.
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Colombia opened an embassy in West Jerusalem on Wednesday under its new far-right president, Abelardo de la Espriella, and restored its free trade deal with Israel. Palestinian officials condemned the move, which reverses the break in relations that former president Gustavo Petro ordered in May 2024 over Israel's actions in Gaza.
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Israeli forces raided several Palestinian NGO offices in Ramallah and a hospital in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reports. WAFA reported that snipers were deployed outside the entrances to the Palestine Medical Complex.
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A year after the Gaza ceasefire, Israeli attacks continue, according to Al Jazeera's weekly Palestine roundup published on Tuesday. Settler violence is also disrupting the oil harvest in the West Bank.
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Israeli fire killed at least two people in Gaza on Monday, according to medics and health officials, a day after three others were killed. Al Jazeera reports that Israel restricts access to 65 percent of the territory and that more than 1.4 million people are acutely short of food.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the identification and prosecution of the soldiers and officers interviewed in the documentary NAZA, the Guardian reports. The film by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor draws on 24 anonymous Israeli sources who accuse the military of killing Palestinians in Gaza using AI systems.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas postponed elections on Saturday, with the vote now set for September 2027 instead of November, according to the Jerusalem Post and Le Monde. France urged the Palestinian Authority leadership to reverse the decision, and The National reports that Palestinian factions will meet in Egypt for reconciliation talks.
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A year after the ceasefire, Al Jazeera reports that continuing attacks, restrictions on medical aid and delayed evacuations are still killing Palestinians in Gaza. Kushner, marking a year of Trump's peace plan, cited hostage returns and increased aid but warned that Hamas disarmament remains unfinished, the Jerusalem Post reports.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas postponed the legislative elections planned for 28 November by a year and called a presidential election for September 2027, Le Monde and Reuters report. The Jerusalem Post says Israeli military attacks, settlement expansion, settler violence, movement restrictions and withheld Palestinian revenues were cited as reasons.
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More than 100 humanitarian and human rights groups say the Gaza ceasefire exists in name only, citing continued Israeli killings and restrictions, according to Al Jazeera. The UN says nearly all residents need shelter and thousands remain missing, one year into the truce.
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The Palestinian Authority is set to delay legislative elections planned for 28 November, according to a letter to France cited by Reuters and the New York Times. The letter blames deteriorating conditions in the Palestinian territory, and the New York Times notes the delay comes as the governing Fatah party suffers deep internal rifts.
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Al Jazeera recorded at least 19 attacks by Israeli settlers across the West Bank on Friday, while Israeli forces separately detained 16 Palestinians. Palestinian farmers harvesting olives are asking international activists for protection.
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Three years after Hamas's attack on southern Israel, 82% of structures in the Gaza Strip are damaged, Folha de S.Paulo reports. On the anniversary, Israeli forces killed Civil Defense volunteer Mohammad Tammous near the ruined Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, according to Telesur.
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Israel marked the third anniversary of the Hamas attack that set off the Gaza war on Wednesday with silent tributes and political debate, weeks before elections. Al Jazeera reports that Israeli attacks across Gaza killed at least four Palestinians, among them a Civil Defence rescue volunteer in the north.
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Israeli forces raided several West Bank communities, imposing curfews, detaining people and demolishing a Palestinian home, Telesur reports, around the third anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. Al Jazeera showed a soldier smashing a memorial to Palestinians, and the Jerusalem Post, citing N12 footage, reports that settlers attacked a Palestinian home and set a vehicle on fire.
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Defense Minister Katz ordered the army on Tuesday to raise its vigilance and prepare for 'any possible scenario' in Gaza, and warned that Gaza's population would pay a heavy price if Hamas attacks during the commemorations, Le Monde reports. Prime Minister Netanyahu claims Hamas is plotting an attack, according to TASS.
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One year after the Gaza ceasefire began, Trump's plan remains stalled according to Reuters and the Jerusalem Post: Hamas is still armed, Israeli forces hold most of Gaza and reconstruction has barely started. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday the truce has failed to provide stability or sufficient relief and urged all parties to meet their obligations.
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The WFP cut Gaza food aid by 50% for lack of funds, Telesur reports. Israeli strikes killed at least six Palestinians at the weekend.
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Washington is pressing Israel's prime minister to condemn settlers besieging Palestinian families in the West Bank village of Qusra. Benjamin Netanyahu has not commented.
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Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya travelled to Cairo on Sunday to meet Egypt's intelligence chief. US envoy Jared Kushner is due in Israel and Egypt next week.
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Israel's defence minister ordered the army on Friday to hand civilian law enforcement in the occupied West Bank to the police. Settlers have besieged Palestinian families in Qusra since Sunday.
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Jared Kushner is due in Israel next week to save the US-backed Gaza plan. Netanyahu rejected its Hamas disarmament terms on Sunday.
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Israeli soldiers moved Palestinian families out of their besieged homes in Qusra in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, but the settlers blockading them since Sunday stayed.
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An Israeli drone killed Gaza City's police chief, Colonel Jamal Abu Kamil, on Thursday, a day after Israel resumed air raids. A second strike killed one person in Khan Younis.
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Israel struck Gaza on Wednesday for the first time in over a week, killing one man. Its defence minister ruled out any pullback from Gaza, Lebanon or Syria.
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Settlers have kept two Palestinian families trapped in their homes in the West Bank village of Qusra since Sunday. Israeli troops sent to lift the siege pulled back on Wednesday without ending it.
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Thousands of Gaza patients still await medical evacuation, with transfers running three to four times a week, the WHO said on Tuesday. Russia's UN envoy called the US peace plan stalled.
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Palestine's UN envoy asked the Security Council on Tuesday to enforce international law in the occupied West Bank. A UN official said settlement expansion must be treated as an emergency.
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Netanyahu is sticking to his rejection of the US-backed 15-point Gaza roadmap, announced on Sunday, and rules out any withdrawal before Hamas disarms. Washington says the process continues.
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The Guardian reported on Monday that Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa compound has entered a new phase of confrontation, with Arab states and former Israeli officials warning that the long-standing arrangements at the site are being eroded. According to the newsletter, those critics accuse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of complicity.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the US-backed 15-point Gaza roadmap in a Sunday cabinet meeting, ruling out any withdrawal before Hamas disarms.
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The Israeli military has closed the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank, citing repeated settler attacks. The measure was reported on Sunday, a day after settlers stormed a mosque near Hebron.
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Hamas said on Saturday it is ready for phase two of the US-backed Gaza plan and urged Washington to press Israel, which has not signed the roadmap.
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Residents near Bethlehem told Al Jazeera that Israeli settlers attack them daily as violence spreads across the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military said it would investigate footage showing a soldier striking a Palestinian, while Palestinian Christians say mounting hardship is driving their community to leave.
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Israeli troops pulled out of the Qalandiya refugee camp north of Jerusalem late on Thursday after a two-day assault that left 51 Palestinians injured and more than 60 detained, the Tehran Times reported, describing a camp-by-camp offensive in the West Bank. Daily Sabah reports that patients across the occupied West Bank are unable to obtain essential medicines as public health facilities deteriorate.
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Israeli forces continued their operation in the Qalandiya area near Jerusalem after an order to take over the Palestinian refugee camp, The National reported on Thursday. Al Jazeera reported on Friday that the raid injured 51 Palestinians and that Israeli forces arrested dozens, amid what it described as an uptick in military and settler violence in the West Bank.
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In a video posted on Tuesday night, Netanyahu said Israel never agreed to the US-backed draft on Hamas disarmament. He ruled out leaving Israeli positions in Gaza until Hamas is fully disarmed.
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Israeli forces launched a large-scale military operation in the Qalandiya refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, Al Jazeera reported. Jordan's foreign minister Ayman Safadi said Israeli actions are triggering escalation in the West Bank and Gaza, while Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met King Abdullah II in Amman and attended a ministerial meeting on Jerusalem.
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Israeli strikes killed 18 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday and two more on Monday, one of the deadliest stretches since the October ceasefire.
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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said Israeli troops will not pull back from their current positions in the Gaza Strip until Hamas is completely disarmed, Politika reported on Tuesday. The Economist describes disarmament as one of the sticking points in the Gaza deal.
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Thousands gathered in central Gaza on Tuesday for a mass funeral for 112 members of the Abu Shreia and al-Hassaina families, among them 40 children, killed in an Israeli attack in 2023. Their remains were recovered from the rubble of destroyed homes almost three years later.
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An Israeli air strike killed two Palestinians in a car in Gaza City on Monday evening, medics said. The truce's mediators, Türkiye, Egypt and Qatar, condemned Israel's ceasefire violations the same day.
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After its envoy met Prime Minister Netanyahu on Monday, the US-led Board of Peace said Israeli forces will leave Gaza only once Hamas has handed over all weapons. Israel refuses to pull back before disarmament, Hamas refuses to disarm before a pullback.
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Residents of the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, many of them US citizens, have seen a sharp rise in attacks by Israeli settlers, the Guardian reported on Monday. The increase followed visits by US ambassador Mike Huckabee to the nearby Israeli settlement of Shilo.
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Israeli air strikes hit Gaza for a second straight day on Sunday, with Palestinian tallies of the dead ranging from 8 to 18. Israel has still not publicly responded to the US roadmap for Hamas's disarmament.
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Gaza's civil defence says it has ended a two-week search in the Sabra district and recovered 112 bodies from destroyed houses. It reports 157 more people still missing at the same site.
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Gaza's civil defence says Israeli strikes killed at least eight people across the Strip on Sunday, days after Hamas accepted a US-brokered disarmament deal. Israel has not said publicly whether it accepts the terms.
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A Hamas representative says the Palestinian side has fulfilled everything required of it and that decisions on collecting weapons rest with Palestinians alone. The UAE on Saturday welcomed the disarmament agreement announced two days earlier.
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Israeli forces detained Palestinians, among them children, in raids in the West Bank, with settler violence, illegal outposts and frequent attacks reported across Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus, according to Al Jazeera. The Wall Street Journal reported that settlers have torched mosques and that villagers are guarding their homes.
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Hamas confirmed on Friday that it accepted a US-brokered plan to give up its weapons alongside a phased Israeli withdrawal. Both sides insist the other side must move first.
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Israeli forces attacked targets across Gaza and killed at least two Palestinians, one day after Hamas agreed to a draft peace deal, Al Jazeera reported. The Israeli military said it killed Kafina, whom it identified as a commander who took part in the 7 October attack and in the kidnapping of Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or.
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US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his Board of Peace had reached an agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza, with Israeli forces withdrawing in phases as weapons are handed over. Hamas negotiator Ghazi Hamad said the movement will not disarm before Israel withdraws. An Israeli official told Reuters the terms do not meet Israel's demand for full demilitarisation first.
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Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least four people, among them two children, health officials said on Thursday. The attacks clouded renewed talks with Hamas on a US-backed ceasefire.
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The Israeli military struck a mosque in Gaza City, saying Hamas stored weapons inside; the Hamas-run media office rejected that account. On the same day Gaza's health ministry put the number of children orphaned since October 2023 at about 60,700 and the overall death toll at 73,335. In Rafah, preparations continue for a "humanitarian city" under the Trump-led Board of Peace, a project Palestinians in the enclave view very differently.
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Israeli forces seized land under Palestinian Authority administration in the occupied West Bank in order to connect two illegal Israeli settlements, according to an Israeli media report cited by Daily Sabah. The National reported that Israeli politicians have shown little appetite for curbing the settler rampage in the West Bank, while Italy and Saudi Arabia said they oppose Israeli annexation efforts there.
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Israeli jets destroyed the Al-Muttaqin Mosque in Gaza City on Tuesday, next to tents sheltering displaced Palestinians, killing at least one person and wounding more than twelve, according to Al Jazeera. Hours earlier, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Israeli television that Israel controls more than 60 percent of Gaza and intends to reach 70 percent. Both happened while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was preparing to meet US President Donald Trump in Washington.
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Hamas is ready to conclude negotiations on the second phase of the Gaza peace plan and views the road map presented by the Board of Peace and the mediators positively, provided Israel agrees, a television channel reported according to TASS. Israel released 60 Palestinian detainees, and Oxfam accused Israel of genocide while presenting a Palestinian-led reconstruction blueprint worth 71.4 billion dollars.
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A deadly settler attack outside Nablus, in Tal, set off what Al Jazeera describes as days of raids, arson, closures and mass arrests across the occupied West Bank. More than 550 former Israeli officials and generals wrote to President Donald Trump urging him to press Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over settler violence, which they say endangers Israel's future.
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Israeli forces raided at least 20 towns and villages in the occupied West Bank as well as a United Nations facility, demolishing homes and making arrests, according to Tehran Times, while the Jerusalem Post reports nine people were detained after the Gilad Farm shooting, among them the suspected gunman's father, whom police did not accuse of involvement in the attack itself. Palestinian rescue workers cited by Le Monde and The National say a 28-year-old pregnant woman lost her unborn child after her ambulance was held for more than 30 minutes at a checkpoint near Nablus, an account the Israeli
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Israel has approved the deployment of an international stabilisation force in Gaza, a step that supporters describe as significant for rebuilding the territory and replacing Hamas rule, according to a Jerusalem Post analysis. Details of implementation and troop contributions are not set out in the reporting.
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Hamas held a leadership vote and the result was close, with turnout that Tehran Times describes as real and a process that followed the movement's own rules. The outlet examines the implications and priorities of the newly elected leader, who is not named in the available report.
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Israel's political-security cabinet on Sunday approved the entry of the Board of Peace's International Stabilization Force into parts of Gaza that lie outside Israeli military control. The initial contingent is reported at around 200 personnel from countries such as Morocco and Uganda, with Israel retaining a veto over which states may take part. The decision came a day before Prime Minister Netanyahu's departure for Washington, where he is due to meet President Trump on Tuesday.
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Palestinian officials said Israeli settlers set fire to and defaced two mosques in the northern occupied West Bank, as reported by Al Jazeera, Le Monde and Folha de S.Paulo. The attacks followed violence on Friday in a Palestinian village near Nablus in which four Palestinians and two Israelis were killed, and the Israeli army has warned of a wider escalation.
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Israeli forces have begun a large-scale military operation against a village in the occupied West Bank following a day of deadly violence, according to The National. Further details on casualties and the course of the raid were not given in the report.
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Israeli forces detained at least 70 Palestinians during raids across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, Daily Sabah reported. Eight Palestinians were injured in a separate attack by Israeli settlers.
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A new report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification says acute malnutrition in Gaza has fallen since famine was declared in parts of the territory in August last year, helped by increased aid deliveries and reduced fighting after the October 2025 cease-fire. Still, about 1.2 million people — 59 percent of the population — were acutely food insecure between April and June. The IPC warns that shrinking funding and humanitarian access could push that figure above 1.4 million by the end of 2026.
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Authorities said four Palestinians and two Israelis were killed on Friday in a shooting in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, one of the deadliest incidents in months, according to the New York Times and Folha de S.Paulo. Details remain unclear and officials have given differing accounts, while The National reports that houses have been set alight as tensions flare over the killings.
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UNESCO added the archaeological site of Sebastia in the northern West Bank to its List of World Heritage in Danger, Palestinian officials said on Friday according to Daily Sabah. The report gives no further detail on the reasons behind the decision.
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